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Main Authors: Li, Jiatong, Doclo, Simon
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05293
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author Li, Jiatong
Doclo, Simon
author_facet Li, Jiatong
Doclo, Simon
contents Recently, a variational autoencoder (VAE)-based single-channel speech enhancement system using Bayesian permutation training has been proposed, which uses two pretrained VAEs to obtain latent representations for speech and noise. Based on these pretrained VAEs, a noisy VAE learns to generate speech and noise latent representations from noisy speech for speech enhancement. Modifying the pretrained VAE loss terms affects the pretrained speech and noise latent representations. In this paper, we investigate how these different representations affect speech enhancement performance. Experiments on the DNS3, WSJ0-QUT, and VoiceBank-DEMAND datasets show that a latent space where speech and noise representations are clearly separated significantly improves performance over standard VAEs, which produce overlapping speech and noise representations.
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spellingShingle Investigation of Speech and Noise Latent Representations in Single-channel VAE-based Speech Enhancement
Li, Jiatong
Doclo, Simon
Audio and Speech Processing
Recently, a variational autoencoder (VAE)-based single-channel speech enhancement system using Bayesian permutation training has been proposed, which uses two pretrained VAEs to obtain latent representations for speech and noise. Based on these pretrained VAEs, a noisy VAE learns to generate speech and noise latent representations from noisy speech for speech enhancement. Modifying the pretrained VAE loss terms affects the pretrained speech and noise latent representations. In this paper, we investigate how these different representations affect speech enhancement performance. Experiments on the DNS3, WSJ0-QUT, and VoiceBank-DEMAND datasets show that a latent space where speech and noise representations are clearly separated significantly improves performance over standard VAEs, which produce overlapping speech and noise representations.
title Investigation of Speech and Noise Latent Representations in Single-channel VAE-based Speech Enhancement
topic Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05293